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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yes but what if one side is so slightly curved that it's invisible to the naked eye? Then your total angles would be 179.99 degrees and it's not a triangle.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Non-Euclidian horrors beyond comprehension

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Commonly known as reality

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But isn't a curve just many angles next to one another?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yes, but infinitely many.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

From a calculus perspective, you may be able to define it as infinitely many angles infinitely close to one another, but I don't think that'd be a particularly good definition.